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tv   Mayors Press Availability  SFGTV  September 21, 2015 1:05pm-1:31pm PDT

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have issued with quorum or not being able to get into this room. >> is that room booked for the tenth is it available this room. >> yes. it is available. >> great just so we cover the bases can we take a motion to change that meeting date and time. >> so moved. >> right i second. >> all right. so the motion to move from the third to november 3rd to november to tell you the truth same time 5:00 p.m. >> i'm sorry 5:30 yes. i have. >> take a vote. >> loss of brain cells. >> commissioner frost commissioner lee commissioner vice president joseph commissioner caminong commissioner president tan. >> all right. great that is done with any others new business? any public comment for us about
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new business all right. not seeing any, this meeting is adjourned at 7:09 p.m. >> well, he wanted to welcome everybody to it gorgeous day at contemporary hundred and 65 people registered to attend this conference mayor we couldn't be more existed that is beyond our expectation but as you may know dreamforcwe is for the just about having a good time and innovation but giving back that's one the salesforce core values and that's why we invited
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you as the superintendent of sexual richard carranza welcome to, here we have our 1 millbrook drive so, yeah exciting so we have obligate our school house to keep everybody's on the eye bone the ball k through 12 not only in san francisco needs our attendance and the people that make the difference which if come to the k through 12 education are the people attends dreamforcwe that is, of course, all those great embarrassing insures and innovators and companies and we that to inspire them to remember to go and work in the k through 12 system we're, of course, doing f that in san francisco we want to tutor giving but e us the inspiration that work in our elementary school and hopefully e heroism into our high schools. >> thank you mayor and mr.
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superintendent for being here and being our inspiration to remember the kids and why we're here at dreamforcwe to give back mark thank you. >> good morning, everybody. 2015 dreamforcwe in san francisco well mark thank you for just starting this company here years ago growing it and making that successful and you're right hundred and 65 thousand people i felt that, too blocks away i want to sass say welcome as to the customers and business partners this is a wonderful time in the city not because dreamforcwe is here with a cruise ship liner people are living in and filling up the hotels it is a time we can clear have examples hour how successful businesses benefit everybody in our city this is a
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job that i enjoy doing that richard carranza our superintendent. >> i. >> do solemnly swear. doing whether we work with the business partners epa mark and benioff looeldz with salesforce with our corporate character that is so important to emphasis the companies coming here today have an opportunities to exhibit character to take into account what the commitment to social values and ultimately it is a part of what we do is we've got to create the talent for those companies for future generations salesforce noted here for 5 years but 20 years richard and i got together we'd love you to recruit from the people that live and grew up in san francisco this is little
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school house is is got wonderful kids from jildz that want to work for salesforce they love to be part of a 111 and part of the fact that dreamforce has has a theme for giving back starts within an understanding where tlaernts a derived it is education, education within the house education in the schools, education in the community it begins with some basically things like read that's why mark i'm here with my 3 books any daughter said you're giving away my books yeah, you read them 10 minds i want this threatened to be transferred to the talent those kids are about to have and be supported by upstairs companies walk salesforce i'm so
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enthusiastically but with we are doing with you and the other companies with the circulation of tech companies through sf city that are encircling the schools and making sure our principals and teachers are is the resources and is volunteers have the books have everything they need to be successful it is already making a difference mark with salesforce foundations investment in the middle schools and the stem education weave already seen some increases in the performance of our kids this is the third year i'm so happy that the millions of dollars we're pitting in are not just financial contributions by making a difference in their making a defensive in the enthusiasm of the teachers and the resources they have and the principals and holding everyone on the campus affordable to the success of our children that's why a school house in the middle
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of hundred and 65 person company conference in the middle of the san francisco that's exactly a kind of relationship we want with every single business in the city so i'm proud of dreamforce and proud of the employees that work there that are part of the 11 culture i'm proud of everybody that spends that additional time to think about what success medians for others that are in need not just themselves this is why we have a shared prosperity in san francisco i've got on obligation to build and rehab enough housing for everyone that want to be here including the teachers i'll work hard but i'll tell you you said something earlier he think mark you and lynn inspires us to give more this is an exciting times let's continue a collaboration pea
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make the link more and more before all the things we do successfully to help those at the heart of that i said earlier it is education this is where the sam's i salesforce foundation has made to their contributions on a day to day basis i have the privilege of working with a superintendent who also has that as his goal and making the relationship with the city with an the success in the education system our superintendent richard carranza. >> thank you (clapping.) thank you mr. mayor and mr. benioff mark thank you all for being here in front of of the light go school thousand what do you think isn't that gorgeous more than anything i want to thank you, mr. mayor for our words we live by the fact you
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can't have a world-class city without a world-class education system it didn't reside in one seblth of the community you have to are the philanthropic community and the private business community and obviously you have to are on the other hand, it elected still officials on the same page i'm proud to have our board of education this is here with us to say we're all rolling in the same direction and as evidence of that justices three years ago when we started the partnership you wouldn't have heard in the middle schools anything like a maker space or design thinking or computer science and programming now new middle grade or middle schools in san francisco you'll find maker spaces and kids programming you'll find pre k kindergarten is the students
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learning the fundamental of convert science we recognize in the 21st century a language we need to have this would not to have happened without the investment in the partnerships are salesforce i'm so proud that is more than just stuff it is more than just technology it is more than a investment and resources those are important but the 111 model salesforce volunteers and employees that come into our schools and sit sibdz side by side shoulder to shoulder with the students the students have a sense of empowerment maybe i could do this kind of work and not thought about stem field the young girls that didn't think that that all of a sudden see other women in stem i can do that san francisco is the mesopotamia in the world everything stems is from what happens in san francisco is many
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make sense mr. benioff your planting seeds our students will be your future employees everyone here at salesforce director barbara garcia it an appropriate title you're helping our students to be part of the dream of stem and innovation the draechl open in a deft way the corner of that all it the strong literacy students need to read and write and do margret and the one million drive will trofrp our pre k to rich libraries of books that students want to read and stack and learn and go to the next level this is an dribbling i incredibly important investments coupled with the investment in the middle grades so for us this is a symbolic day a the bernie we're over three-quarters of what to the goal 0 so i'll say like jerry
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louis but we can do it we want books in the schools and want to thank all the participants at dreamforce for mcthat happen and burglary benioff and mrs. benioff but other folks wherever susan it she's guarding the school house i love it we want to thank you for your partnership a model for the nation everyone from that is here from director barbara garcia across the world take that back and talk about how it is possible to have those 3 kinds of the public and private and elected to come together e together and rally around the public education on behalf of the 48 thousand students in the unified school district we'll take a million books and put them to good use let's have a
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great director barbara garcia and thank you very much. >> thank you, mr. mayor and mr. superintendent and salesforce is deeply committed in the san francisco unified school district the first thing i want to thank both of you here no san francisco our superintendent implicit report to the mayor our school board and you guys don't have to work together ensue you do it is because you work together so well and have an incredible partnership that is what inspires us and so we're noting now in year 3 of a 10 year commitment for more than bone madam clerk, are there any announcements? >> i hundred million dollars to be dedicated to the unified school district i hope that goes 10 and 20 and thirty years the salesforce through the money the technology is important but i guess i'm proud of, of course, your employees who are dedicating what will be hundreds of thousands of hours to do the
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taken care of and the tutoring to augment you're amazing teachers and principals in the schools so thank you for giving us that opportunity without you two working together we couldn't do with what we are doing we're quick to gratitude and happy to be here i think we should put the books into the school house what had you say? >> all right. thank you very much, everybody welcome to dreamforce and we're looking forward to a great week and see you at the keynote othetherher.s
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>> working for the city and county of san francisco will immerse you in a vibrate and dynamic city on sfroert of the art and social change we've been on the edge after all we're at the meeting of land and sea world-class style it is the burn of blew jeans where the rock holds court over the harbor the city's information technology xoflz work on the rulers project for free wifi and developing projects and insuring
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patient state of at san francisco general hospital our it professionals make guilty or innocent available and support the house/senate regional wear-out system your our employees joy excessive salaries but working for the city and county of san francisco give us employees the unities to contribute their ideas and energy and commitment to shape the city's future but for considering a career with the city and county of san francisco >> here we are at the embarcadero. we are standing at one of locations for the street artists. can you tell me about this
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particular location, the program? >> this location is very significant. this was the very first and only location granted by the board of supervisors for the street artist when the program began in 1972. how does a person become a street artist? there are two major tenants. you must make the work yourself and you must sell the work yourself. a street artist, the license, then submitting the work to a committee of artists. this committee actually watches them make the work in front of them so that we can verify that it is all their own work. >> what happened during the holiday to make this an exciting location? >> this would be a magic time of year. you would probably see this place is jammed with street
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artists. as the no, there is a lottery held at 6 in the morning. that is how sought after the spaces are. you might get as many as 150 street artists to show up for 50 spaces. >> what other areas can a licensed street artist go to? >> they can go to the fisherman's wharf area. they can go in and around union square. we have space is now up in the castro, in fact. >> how many are there? >> we have about 420. >> are they here all year round? >> out of the 420, i know 150 to sell all year round. i mean like five-seven days a week. >> are they making their living of of this? >> this is their sole source of income for many. >> how long have you been with
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this program. how much has it changed? >> i have been with the program since it began 37 and a half years ago but i have seen changes in the trend. fashion comes and goes. >> i think that you can still find plenty of titis perhaps. >> this is because the 60's is retro for a lot of people. i have seen that come back, yes. >> people still think of this city as the birth of that movement. great, thank you for talking about the background of the program. i'm excited to go shopping. >> i would like you to meet two street artists. this is linda and jeremy. >> night said to me to print
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them -- nice to meet you. >> can you talk to me about a variety of products that use cell? >> we have these lovely constructed platters. we make these wonderful powder bowls. they can have a lot of color. >> york also using your license. -- you are also using your license. >> this means that i can register with the city. this makes sure that our family participated in making all of these. >> this comes by licensed artists. the person selling it is the person that made it. there is nothing better than the
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people that made it. >> i would like you to meet michael johnson. he has been in the program for over 8 years. >> nice to me you. what inspired your photography? >> i am inspired everything that i see. the greatest thing about being a photographer is being able to show other people what i see. i have mostly worked in cuba and work that i shot here in san francisco. >> what is it about being a street artist that you particularly like? >> i liked it to the first day that i did it. i like talking to mentum people. talking about art or anything that comes to our minds.
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there is more visibility than i would see in any store front. this would cost us relatively very little. >> i am so happy to meet you. i wish you all of the best. >> you are the wonderful artist that makes these color coding. >> nice to me to. >> i have been a street artist since 1976. >> how did you decide to be a street artist? >> i was working on union square. on lunch hours, i would be there visiting the artist. it was interesting, exciting, and i have a creative streak in me. it ranges from t-shirts, jackets, hats. what is the day of the life of a street artist?
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>> they have their 2536 in the morning. by the end of the day, the last people to pack the vehicle probably get on their own at 7:30 at night. >> nice to me to condemn the -- nice to meet you. >> it was a pleasure to share this with you. i hope that the bay area will descend upon the plaza and go through these arts and crafts and by some holiday gifts. >> that would be amazing. thank you so much for the hard work that you do.
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